Free Sketchup Renderings *inquire within*
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drummereef
Team RC
:lol: Looks good.
Thanks, i hear you about the spare time, with a 2 yr old and a 11 week old the wife and i are busy as well and have made no progress on the tank room or as you can guess purchase of equipment has been put on hold as well. This is a great time to be in the military, with the way the economy is....Job security...
allanfranklin
Member
Here is a Sketchup model of a Mangrove Plant/Refugium tank that I want to add-on to my existing 70 gallon setup.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?
I can't figure out the best way to plumb the setup into my current setup though. Could you guys help me out? I plan on moving my protein skimmer from my main sump to the sump within this add-on.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?
I can't figure out the best way to plumb the setup into my current setup though. Could you guys help me out? I plan on moving my protein skimmer from my main sump to the sump within this add-on.
returnofsid
New member
WOW!!! Amazing thread!! Okay, so I've downloaded Google Sketchup...ummmm...I can't even figure out how to draw a basic tank and stand...lol. Any suggestions or tutorials?
returnofsid
New member
LOL Then I oughta catch on quickly, since I have absolutely no experience with any of them!!!
stugray
Premium Member
troylee
"after i convience someone to draw it for me because i suck on the pc."
uncleof6,
"Good luck finding that someone.... "
ACTUALLY.... my 12 year old is way into learning sketchup and takes on any project that you can provide accurate dimensions for.
He recently modeled my entire basement for a remodel & has done a few tanks for members on this forum before.
PM some drawings or rough dimensions and he might take it on......
Will accept acrylic scraps as payment..... we come down to LV often ;-)
Stu
BTW - I truly believe that Google left annoying "idiosyncrasies" in the free version just to get us to pay.
Just TRY aligning one circle onto another........ with autocad, you could "snap to center" with a couple of clicks.
With the free version of sketchup, it seems they put every blockade in place to make it difficult.
"after i convience someone to draw it for me because i suck on the pc."
uncleof6,
"Good luck finding that someone.... "
ACTUALLY.... my 12 year old is way into learning sketchup and takes on any project that you can provide accurate dimensions for.
He recently modeled my entire basement for a remodel & has done a few tanks for members on this forum before.
PM some drawings or rough dimensions and he might take it on......
Will accept acrylic scraps as payment..... we come down to LV often ;-)
Stu
BTW - I truly believe that Google left annoying "idiosyncrasies" in the free version just to get us to pay.
Just TRY aligning one circle onto another........ with autocad, you could "snap to center" with a couple of clicks.
With the free version of sketchup, it seems they put every blockade in place to make it difficult.
stugray
Premium Member
uncleof6,
Ahhh.. I still have a fully licensed copy of Lightwave for the 486, DEC alpha & amiga complete with hardware dongle ( if that doesnt date me enough.... )
I remember running it on a Pentium 90 ( thats MHz ) and going WOW!
I was doing architectural walk-throughs when Babylon 5 was still cutting edge ;-)
My wife was the "texture guru" for the carpeting, wallpaper, and comforters.....
Does the full version of sketchup have better "snap to another object" tools than the free version?
Honestly, if you could tell me how to snap two circles to the same center point, I would be very happy ;-)
Stu
Ahhh.. I still have a fully licensed copy of Lightwave for the 486, DEC alpha & amiga complete with hardware dongle ( if that doesnt date me enough.... )
I remember running it on a Pentium 90 ( thats MHz ) and going WOW!
I was doing architectural walk-throughs when Babylon 5 was still cutting edge ;-)
My wife was the "texture guru" for the carpeting, wallpaper, and comforters.....
Does the full version of sketchup have better "snap to another object" tools than the free version?
Honestly, if you could tell me how to snap two circles to the same center point, I would be very happy ;-)
Stu
uncleof6
Active member
So would I-- especially when trying to line up pipe and fittings. I have not found a snap to anything in sketchup, There is inferencing, sketchup's "snap to grid", but if you want concentric circles you gotta draw them concentric, which is pretty easy, unless you extruded a cylinder and want to put a concentric circle on top of the cylinder, and since the cylinder is hollow, there is no reference center unless you put one there, and then sketchup always wants to put the circle on a perpendicular axis. Sketchup is not "handy" in many ways, and lacks functionality that other packages have. Cannot argue that autocad is way ahead of sketchup, but this is a sketchup thread, so I think it would be "cheating" if I used autocad to model, took it into maya or lightwave to animate it and render complete with running water, ocean motion or what have you-- or simply do the whole thing in Maya or Lightwave. And as far as modeling and rendering it don't get any better than that IMUHO. But then I will not fire that stuff up for free either. (no I am not offering a service) So here it is sketchup and hypershot, and for these purposes it is satisfactory, though cumbersome at times.
So what is it exactly you are trying to do? I am probably having the same headache.............
Jim
stugray
Premium Member
uncleof6,
"So what is it exactly you are trying to do?"
All I was doing was trying to align skimmer cup to body when the parts were from different models.
There is no way ( as far as I can tell ) to assign a new coordinate system ( snap to center ) to a part that is circular.
I can only seem to move objects from one vertex to another vertex.
Even using the measurement tools, it is hard to find the center of an existing circle or arc.
Stu
"So what is it exactly you are trying to do?"
All I was doing was trying to align skimmer cup to body when the parts were from different models.
There is no way ( as far as I can tell ) to assign a new coordinate system ( snap to center ) to a part that is circular.
I can only seem to move objects from one vertex to another vertex.
Even using the measurement tools, it is hard to find the center of an existing circle or arc.
Stu
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